BlueSquare
Smash Rookie
- Joined
- Jan 13, 2017
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I'm BlueSquare, or Nick.
I started playing Melee back in 2004 on a small, retro grey-scale tv connected into the wall of my kitchen while it was on the table, where I played melee incredibly casually, as I had no idea that the competitive scene in melee ever existed, and I continued to play on and off until the end of the year.
A year after brawl's release, I was able to play with some of my online friends from another community, though it felt good to have a breath of fresh air, what it added into brawl (tripping) led to the shortest time I've ever played a smash game, and soon, it started to collect dust as well.
Fast forward to 2015, I had recently discovered the smash bros documentary, and decided to watch it for myself, and as long as it was, it came to the point where it inspired a reason to play Melee, and train a bit, learn the techniques, and familiarize myself with how the game works, even though what I had at the time was not able to prepare me for the world of Melee, I still continued to attempt to do the advanced techniques, and practiced techs... on a 360 controller plugged into my computer on an emulator.
I continued to play on and off, not really focusing on trying to become good, or improving, but just enjoying myself against bots with what knowledge of Falco that I know.
About two weeks ago, I had stumbled upon several youtube channels (AsumSaus, Smashing Archive, GRSmash, SSBM Tutorials) that re-sparked my interest in Melee, so for the past two days, I've been grinding away at bots for better tech skill, predicting actions, and finding different ways to approach, and recover, as well as combo from grabs, and learning to maintain those combos, as well as learn how to finish them off with taking a stock.
I'm too embarrassed by my own actions to actually go on netplay and fight random people, but I'm more than comfortable with finding someone in person at a venue, and playing friendlies there. The only problem is, that there's barely anything of a melee scene at Coachella Valley, or anywhere else in the Desert Region of SoCal.
I hope I can improve myself as a person, so I may get better at Melee.
I started playing Melee back in 2004 on a small, retro grey-scale tv connected into the wall of my kitchen while it was on the table, where I played melee incredibly casually, as I had no idea that the competitive scene in melee ever existed, and I continued to play on and off until the end of the year.
A year after brawl's release, I was able to play with some of my online friends from another community, though it felt good to have a breath of fresh air, what it added into brawl (tripping) led to the shortest time I've ever played a smash game, and soon, it started to collect dust as well.
Fast forward to 2015, I had recently discovered the smash bros documentary, and decided to watch it for myself, and as long as it was, it came to the point where it inspired a reason to play Melee, and train a bit, learn the techniques, and familiarize myself with how the game works, even though what I had at the time was not able to prepare me for the world of Melee, I still continued to attempt to do the advanced techniques, and practiced techs... on a 360 controller plugged into my computer on an emulator.
I continued to play on and off, not really focusing on trying to become good, or improving, but just enjoying myself against bots with what knowledge of Falco that I know.
About two weeks ago, I had stumbled upon several youtube channels (AsumSaus, Smashing Archive, GRSmash, SSBM Tutorials) that re-sparked my interest in Melee, so for the past two days, I've been grinding away at bots for better tech skill, predicting actions, and finding different ways to approach, and recover, as well as combo from grabs, and learning to maintain those combos, as well as learn how to finish them off with taking a stock.
I'm too embarrassed by my own actions to actually go on netplay and fight random people, but I'm more than comfortable with finding someone in person at a venue, and playing friendlies there. The only problem is, that there's barely anything of a melee scene at Coachella Valley, or anywhere else in the Desert Region of SoCal.
I hope I can improve myself as a person, so I may get better at Melee.
